Title data
Cortiel, Jeanne:
With a Barbarous Din : Race and Ethnic Encounter in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
Heidelberg
:
Winter
,
2016
. -
281 p.
- (American Studies
; 266
)
ISBN 978-3-8253-6557-8
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Abstract in another language
This study re-examines the mid-1850s, a time that remains central to American literary studies, exploring new ways of looking at this cultural moment through the twentieth-century concept of ‘ethnicity.’ This approach uncovers the hidden subversiveness of American literature as it responded to scientific race theory in the debate over slavery and also highlights the ways in which the texts examined in this study – Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno (1855), Frederick Douglass’ ‘My Bondage and My Freedom’ (1855), Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ‘Dred’ (1856), Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ (1855), and John Rollin Ridge’s ‘The Life and Adventures of Joaqín Murieta’ (1854) – powerfully resonate with ideas of affiliation and difference today. Focusing on a brief historical moment in the past from a decidedly twenty-first century perspective, the study reflects upon the texts’ movement through time and demonstrates how race and ethnicity in these texts have been transformed under the pressures of history.
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Item Type: | Book / Monograph |
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Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Professor North American Studies - American Studies > Professor North American Studies - American Studies - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jeanne Cortiel Profile Fields > Emerging Fields > Cultural Encounters and Transcultural Processes Research Institutions > Research Centres > Bayreuth Institute for American Studies - BIFAS Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Professor North American Studies - American Studies Profile Fields Profile Fields > Emerging Fields Research Institutions Research Institutions > Research Centres |
Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
DDC Subjects: | 800 Literature > 810 American literature in English |
Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2016 07:10 |
Last Modified: | 04 Feb 2016 07:10 |
URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/30250 |